Maoists need ideological introspection: Yechury

Making it clear that the Maoists would have to abjure violence to join the democratic mainstream, senior leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Sitaram Yechury on Friday said that the rebels need to introspect their ideology before the commencement of any back-channel peace talks with the government. Yechury revealed that the number of applications submitted before the State's Election Commission for inclusion in the voter's list far exceeded the number of the total electorate of West Bengal.